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“How the world ended” from Truncated: Apocalyptic and Loving It!
Well what lined up for it all to happen was the same as the bullet to the driver’s head scenario only at a much larger scale. It’s hard to pinpoint what came first because there’s always the dropping of keys analogy, and so these things were maybe on a collision course since the beginning of time. A butterfly farted in the mid Eocene epoch and all of that. One couldn’t help but wonder if there was a cosmic design to it, all due to its complexity and timing.
The plague that visited us wasn’t really a plague, but more of a sever and sometimes deadly flu and it had ravaged mostly the East Coast after some monkey in Southeast Asia fucked a mango or something and created a flu unlike witnessed since the Dark Ages. The spectrum of antibiotics and antiviral medications was dwindling like the ice flows were due to global warming. What used to work, simply didn’t anymore. Or at least not for everyone.
The majority of the infected people were quarantined to as far as Michigan, because the symptoms were so easily recognizable due to the purple blotches that appeared on the neck and face. Some died and some lived and while the plague was spread throughout the world, it wasn’t the epic killing machine the Bubonic plague was. Most people lived through it, but old folks and the already ill went down without much of a fight. The rest would sit in confinement for the next several months. Or right until what happened really started getting started. Because while what happened, had happened over a relatively short time, it appeared to have happened suddenly.